the beat bike blog

Much of my Christmas week was spent in a rented Toyota Corolla driving to Michigan to visit family, including a trip “Up North” to see...

The world makes little sense to me.  But, a nice Christmas Eve (and Hanukkah) bike ride to Berlin Bike and back through Watrous Park (the be...

Go Stybar!

Nothing says welcome to Hartford like a hastily abandoned pair of white hooker boots (size 11!) and an ATV on the sidewalk.  This morning I ...

Tony & Ken's ghost bikes have received a big response (in a somber way) and the Courant wrote a thoughtful editorial about it. S...

The ride from Hartford to New Britain for the annual Bike Walk Connecticut dinner could have been worse. But, it could have been much easie...

  Blood sausage will probably not be served at the BikeWalkCT annual dinner, but you can always bring your own. Like to eat? Like to ad...

My torts professors, Prof. Chill, had advice for exams, which I have next week. Actually, it's Sunday, so now it's this week. His ad...

Dario and I headed north along the riverfront trails, when we could find the trails underneath all the felled trees.  Lots of opportunities ...

So, I did two things today.  First, I went under contract on a foreclosed condo in downtown Hartford. Second, and more importantly, I traile...

I still have no idea why I got involved in this, but I'm nearing the final throes of my first semester of law school. The New York Ti...

Last week I received a powerful note from Linda, the surviving spouse of William Laramie, who was killed by a drunk driver on Burnside Aven...

Motivated by the growing pile of dead cyclists on Burnside Avenue , a group of concerned bike commuters created and installed white  ghost...

A year and a half ago or so, a nice person from the Windsor town hall contacted me about a bike path running from the Bissel bridge sou...

There have been three bicycle commuter deaths on Burnside Avenue.  This is especially scary as I occasionally ride Burnside.  After the Nove...

The summit was held in beautiful Kroon Hall on the Yale campus with a soaring conference space and huge windows, which had neat automat...

Mahoney for dog catcher: that way to the future! It seems like there's an election every couple of months in Hartford. I think that...

No pictures of fallen trees here.  These are all pre-snowmageddon.  I prefer to remember the stellar fall rides, including a chilly overnig...

I had this idea that limbs in the woods not would fall down as much as the trees and limbs in yards and along roadways. In the woods, they...

As you are no doubt aware, there was storm that knocked down every tree in Connecticut. For that reason, it may be very difficult to undert...